Last week's Hive Five vote was a heated one and involved all the high-noon drama of a dusty street shootout. PortableApps started with a strong lead, followed by LiberKey with a very respectable second place position. Both groups had noted on their forums that their respective portable suites were up for a vote. Early this morning LiberKey shot to first place with a sudden surge of votes, and by the time the polls closed they had squeezed out a small lead over PortableApps. In the comments many people were calling the sudden surge into question, and in a very mature gesture the lead developer for LiberKey, Christophe Peuch, did some digging on his side of things and found out that a small group of overzealous LiberKey users had stuffed the ballot box. He fired off an email to us right away, and as a result we're returning LiberKey to the second place slot which it held prior to the gaming.

Now that the air is properly cleared, we're here to announce PortableApps as the winning portable application suite, followed by Liberkey, which in turn is followed portable Linux. Check out the full Hive Five for additional information on all the contenders.